PROBLEM/CONDITION Since 1969, CDC has conducted abortion surveillance to document the number and characteristics of women obtaining legal induced abortions in the United States. REPORTING PERIOD COVERED 2009. DESCRIPTION OF SYSTEM Each year, CDC requests abortion data from the central health agencies of 52 reporting areas (the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and New York City). The rep...

spontaneous abortion (sab) is the most common complication of early pregnancy. numerous risk factors are associated with an increased risk of pregnancy loss such as: blighted ovum. the aim of this study was to determine the frequency of balanced chromosomal translocations in couples with a history of recurrent spontaneous abortions and ultrasound diagnosed blighted ovum. sixty eight couples wit...

299 cases of incomplete abortions were admitted to jahanshah saleh hospital, razi medical school university of tehran during the period of october 10, 1973 to november 24, 1974. all were treated with single dilatation and curettage. the patient groups were roughly half outpatient and half inpatient. the information was recorded on standard forms and computed by the international fertility resea...

This paper uses data on the distribution of abortions by weeks of gestation to examine the relationship between abortion restrictions and the timing of abortions. State-level data from 1974 to 1997 indicate that adoption of parental involvement laws for minors or enforcement of mandatory waiting periods is positively associated with the post-first trimester percentage of abortions. However, aut...

PROBLEM/CONDITION Since 1969, CDC has conducted abortion surveillance to document the number and characteristics of women obtaining legal induced abortions in the United States. REPORTING PERIOD COVERED 2010. DESCRIPTION OF SYSTEM Each year, CDC requests abortion data from the central health agencies of 52 reporting areas (the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and New York City). The rep...

BACKGROUND The study aimed to describe the overall and age-specific trends of induced abortions from 1996 to 2011 with an emphasis on socio-demographic characteristics and contraceptive use of women having had repeat abortions in Estonia. METHODS Data were retrieved from the Estonian Medical Birth and Abortion Registry and Statistics Estonia. Total induced abortion numbers, rates, ratios and ...